DHAKA, (AFP) - Opposition MPs on Thursday boycotted the swearing-in of the new Bangladesh parliament after a controversial election that was dogged by allegations of intimidation and fraud.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was declared the landslide winner after Sunday's poll, marking a third term in..

Louis GENOT, with Marc BURLEIGH in Rio de Janeiro, BRASÍLIA, (AFP) - Brazil's new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro declared a crusade against crime, corruption and leftwing ideology as he took office Tuesday for a four-year term at the helm of Latin America's biggest nation.
In his first public..

VATICAN CITY, (AFP) - Politics is not reserved just for those who rule but must involve everyone, Pope Francis said Tuesday.
"We do not think that politics is reserved only for rulers," he said.
"We are all responsible for the life of the 'city', of the common good; and politics too is good to..

Fireworks, concerts, spiritual services and political addresses abounded to mark the transition to 2019 as revelers around the globe bid farewell Monday to a year filled with challenges to many of the world’s most basic institutions, including politics, trade, alliances and religion.
A look at..

DHAKA, (AFP) - Bangladesh's election chief on Monday rejected calls for a new election after widespread opposition claims of rigging in a weekend vote which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won by a landslide.
The opposition has demanded a rerun, saying Sunday's election was marred by massive..

By JULHAS ALAM and EMILY SCHMALL, DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — More than a dozen people were killed in election-related violence in Bangladesh on Sunday, as voters went to the polls to decide whether to give Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a third consecutive term amid opposition claims that her..

MANILA, (AFP) - A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday triggering a tsunami warning, with small waves expected to hit southern parts of the country and neighbouring Indonesia.
The quake struck southeast of Davao City at a depth of 59 kilometres (35..

NICE, France, (AFP) - If Emmanuel Macron is hoping for some holiday respite from the anti-government protests which have rocked France, he might want to avoid the presidential retreat along the Mediterranean coast.
Around 40 "yellow vest" demonstrators on Thursday tried to storm the medieval fort..

By JULIET LINDERMAN and LISA MASCARO, WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days, maybe four. That’s how long Ethan James, 21, says he can realistically miss work before he’s struggling.
So as the partial government shutdown stretched into its sixth day with no end in sight, James, a minimum-wage..

TEHRAN, (AFP) - Iran has held talks with the Afghan Taliban, one of the country's top security officials said, the Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday.
"The Afghan government has been informed of the communications and talks carried out with the Taliban, and this process will continue," said..

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - The US government shutdown may have temporarily dimmed Washington's National Christmas Tree but never fear, Santa Claus still came to town -- with the military tracking his path across the globe.
Just as it has since the 1950s the Canadian and American defense agency NORAD..

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed Sunday to prevent a power vacuum in Syria after US ground forces withdraw, in a phone conversation days after the US president shocked global partners by announcing Americans would leave the war-scarred..

CARITA, Indonesia, (AFP) - A volcano-triggered tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, officials said Sunday, voicing fears that the toll would rise further.
Hundreds of buildings were..

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - The US government began a Christmas shutdown early Saturday, after Congress adjourned without passing a federal spending bill or addressing President Donald Trump's demand for money to build a border wall.
Operations for several key agencies ceased at 12:01 am Saturday (5:01..

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Donald Trump and congressional Democrats stood at stark odds Thursday as the president balked at a spending stopgap that contains no border wall funding, leaving the US government on the verge of a Christmastime shutdown.
The unpredictable leader's rejection of a measure that..

By ZEINA KARAM and SARAH EL DEEB, BEIRUT (AP) — The United States’ main ally in Syria on Thursday categorically rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that Islamic State group militants have been defeated, saying a premature U.S. pullout would have dangerous repercussions, including a..

SEOUL, (AFP) - North Korea said Thursday its commitment to denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula was bound up with a "complete removal of US nuclear threats".
Following a rapid diplomatic rapprochement this year, the North's leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump signed a vaguely-worded..

WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at U.S. involvement in Syria:
HOW IT STARTED
In September 2014, then-President Barack Obama launched a U.S. air campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, one month after starting airstrikes in neighboring Iraq. The Islamic State had built substantial military..

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